Politics

Monday 27 October 2014October 26, 2014 (KHARTOUM) – The rebel umbrella of the Sudan Revolutionary Forces (SRF) has described the selection of president Omer Hassan al-Bashir as the ruling National Congress Party’s (NCP) candidate for the 2015 elections as a (...)

Tuesday 29 July 2014By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
July 28, 2014 (ADDIS ABABA) – The SPLM/A in Opposition said on Monday it has launched new membership and application forms to organise members as part of increased efforts to bring about political reforms in South (...)

Saturday 25 August 2012August 24, 2012 (JUBA/BENTIU) – The body of the deputy commander-in-chief of the South Sudan army, General Paulino Matip Nhial, who died in the early hours of Wednesday 22 August in Nairobi, Kenya was buried in his home county of Mayom (...)

Saturday 3 August 2013August 2, 2013 (JUBA) – The South Sudanese parliament convened a special session on Friday to vet and approve the new cabinet, but decided to reschedule the process after failing to reach a consensus on some of the candidates put (...)

Tuesday 22 January 2013January 21, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudanese president Salva Kiir unexpectedly removed Lakes State governor Chol Tong Mayay of his post, putting his deputy Mabor Achol Kuer in charge until further arrangements are made, according to a (...)

Wednesday 28 October 2009October 27, 2009 (KHARTOUM) — General Salva Kiir Mayardit, First Vice President of the Republic of Sudan and President of the semi autonomous region of Southern Sudan, said chances of united Sudan are slim and next to impossibility. (...)

Saturday 4 October 2003By Julie Flint, THE DAILY STAR
LONDON, Oct 4, 2003 — For the first time since peace talks began more than a year ago, there is real hope that Sudan’s Islamist government and the southern rebels of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (...)

Wednesday 17 April 2013April 16, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan has attempted to clarify the powers president Salva Kiir has removed from his vice president, Riek Machar, following the shock announcement on state-owned South Sudan Television (SSTV) on Monday. (...)

Thursday 20 March 2014March 19, 2014 (KHARTOUM) – The United Kingdom’s ambassador to Khartoum, Peter Tibber said that the success of the comprehensive national dialogue initiative launched by the Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir earlier this year is (...)

Thursday 1 September 2011August 31, 2011 (BOR) - The newly appointed deputy minister of defence and veteran affairs, Majak Agot Atem, has declined to say whether he will take up his position in South Sudan’s first independent government.
Atem told Sudan (...)

Will the Obama administration fix its Sudan policy?2015-08-02 20:43:08
By Ahmed Hussain Adam
President Obama concluded his three-day symbolic visit to Africa this week, but the 12-year old genocide of Darfur is still unfolding. One would welcome Obama’s achievements (...)

Land ownership and conflict of laws in South Sudan 2015-08-01 05:39:05
By Ajo Noel Julious K.
Land in South Sudan is a prickly thing, complicated even further by the confusion associated with legal land ownership. The parallels and discrepancies between provisions (...)

In memoirs of Dr John Garang de Mabior 2015-07-30 06:14:54
By Mabor Maker Dhelbeny
The event of commemorating this day, as a memorial day of our martyrs since 1955 to 2005 was because of the Late Dr John Garang de Mabior. He died in a helicopter plane (...)